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Virginia’s Dillon Rule that retains for the state any authority not specifically granted to local government makes it impossible for local government to exercise any real control over local issues, according to yeager. Under the Dillon Rule, local governing bodies can write legislation dealing with dogs but not with cats, he noted.
Yeager saw many of the problems confronting local government as arising from the General Assembly. Legislators can’t be knowledgable on over 2,000 separate bills that must be considered during an Assembly session, he said. He described Delegates and State Senators as “pamapered and isolated...more accessible to lobbyists (than to private citizens).” “The system has put knots in the rope and it’s the system that will have to get them out,” said Yeager, adding that legislators needed to have a “town hall attitude.” ‘‘Maybe we ought to reduce the number of lawyers in the General Assembly and try to put people in there,” he continued. To back up his position, Yeager cited a Loudoun legislator who was suing Loudoun Coun on behalf of a developer and, at the same time, was writing
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